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African literature is literature from Africa, either oral (" orature ") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African literature can be traced back to at least the fourth century AD. The best-known is the Kebra Negast, or "Book of Kings" from the 14th century AD. [ 1 ] Another well-known book is the Garima ...
Afro-Asians. A Sheedi girl in Gujarat, India. Afro-Asians, African Asians, Blasians, or simply Black Asians are people of mixed Asian and African ancestry. [1] Historically, Afro-Asian populations have been marginalised as a result of human migration and social conflict. [2]
The magazine published the text of a talk by Ghassan Kanafani on resistance literature presented at the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers' Association conference held in Beirut in March 1967. [15] On 18 February 1978 Yusuf Sibai was assassinated in Nicosia, Cyprus, [16] and Pakistani writer Faiz Ahmad Faiz assumed the post.
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [ 4 ] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...
Afro-Asians in South Asia. A Sheedi girl in Gujarat, India. Afro-Asians (or African Asians) are African communities that have been living in the Indian subcontinent for centuries and have settled in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This includes the Siddis (who have been in India and Pakistan for over a thousand years) and ...
The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer who was an Indian, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas.
The Lotus Prize for Literature (also known as Lotus International Reward for Literature or The Lotus Prize for African and Asian Literature) is a literary award presented annually to African and Asian authors by the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (also known as Association of Asian and African Writers ). [1]
Clark Art Institute. In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle East, [1] was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and ...